Industrial Revolution
Name three of the top seven inventions created during the Gilded Age/Progressive Era.
What are the telephone, phonograph, incandescent light bulb, automobile, Kodak Camera, electric streetcars, and airplane?
Industrial capitalism realized the greatest advances in efficiency and ____ that the world had ever seen.
What is productivity?
These laws required the federal inspection of meats and prevented canned foods or pharmaceuticals from being contaminated or mislabeled.
Name one of these two laws.
What are the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
the exclusive control of a good or service
What is a monopoly?
Name two of the five labor reforms made during the Progressive Era.
What are safety regulations, eight-hour work days, injury compensation, minimum wages, and prohibitions against child labor?
Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply
What is mass production?
By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
He coined the phrase Gilded Age.
Who is Mark Twain?
Upton Sinclair wrote this to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
This is a business strategy where a company acquires or merges with another company in the same industry and at the same stage of production.
What is horizontal integration?
Protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources were the main points of this policy proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the Square Deal?
using a single marketing strategy to reach all customers
What is mass marketing?
This term was used frequently in the 19th century during America's Gilded Age to describe successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical.
Who are Robber Barons?
Women and children joined the workforce to help families make ends meet. True or False.
What is true?
This is an action taken by a group of employees who stop working in an attempt to pressure their employer into meeting their demands.
What is a strike?
This is an arrangement that allows a third party or trustee to hold assets or property for a beneficiary or beneficiaries.
What is a trust?
These were made to deny blacks access to public facilities, certain jobs, and the ability to vote.
What are Black Codes?
the use of governmental authority to control or change some practices in the private sector
What is regulation?
American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.
Who is John Rockefeller?
It is defined as a “period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important social and political criticism novels.
What is the Gilded Age?
This fire that killed 146 people sparked reforms in New York regarding labor.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This occurs when a business acquires ownership of various stages of production to streamline its production process.
What is vertical integration?
Theodore Roosevelt established these to help protect the natural resources of the United States.
What are National Parks? (Where BISON gores people!)
A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
What is a corporation?
United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Describe the working conditions, work week, and pay for the average worker during the Gilded Age.
What is poor, dangerous conditions, 6-7 work weeks between 10-12 hours a day, for roughly $400-500 a year?
These are journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.
What are Muckrackers?
What is a holding company?
This authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts to dissolve them.
money for investment
What is capital?